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    Academy CEO Dawn Hudson on 8 years of trying to modernize a 92-year-old boys' club

    by Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Jul 05, 2019 6 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - Dawn Hudson has a trick for beating jet lag: She refuses to believe in it.

    "I set my watch for the new time and go from there."

    That ability to put mind over matter has helped her navigate thus far as the first chief executive of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Eight years of change, controversy, criticism and occasional chaos have turned a Hollywood fixture, with all the pertinent connotations of calcification, into a roiling center of conversations about inclusivity, sexual harassment, digital disruption and globalization.

    And a near-constant newsmaker.

    In the last two weeks, the academy has made two big announcements that perfectly encapsulate its tumultuous transformation: First, that the opening of the long-awaited academy museum has been pushed back, yet again, sometime after the 2020 Oscars. (Cue groans and pointed questions about whether it will ever open.)

    Second, that the new class of members is, for the first time, half female. Ten branches, including directing and

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